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But maybe somehow we can get a “gored by papal bull” headline at some point this postseason

Well, the jokes about the Catholic Church’s relationship to the city of Boston write themselves, but should probably also show themselves the door

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So what do we call it if the Red and White Sox meet in the ALCS? A Laundry Series?

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hiss driver @hiss-driver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

John Yoo signed off on this recipe

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had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910...

Thiel's reputation for contrarianism is well founded. Forever the chess player, he revels in trying to outthink the competition, in devising the unexpected move—the seemingly absurd but devastating maneuver that no one sees coming. "Most people think that if something's written, if it's shared by the majority of people, then you'll look like a black sheep for challenging it," says his friend Gary Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster. "Peter doesn't have any problem with that." A devoted J.R.R. Tolkien fan from an early age, Thiel is equally enamored with Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer, a retelling of The Lord of the Rings in which Sauron is a beleaguered victim and the elves are bellicosely bent on world domination. "Gandalf's the crazy person who wants to start a war," Thiel explains, "and Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it's all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works. Anyway, it's really clever." He's

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Atlas Shrugged comes to mind, and whether you consider it art or not it certainly wants to be

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I will buy a lifetime subscription for a Chotiner/Yudkowsky interview

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Oh hell yeah, instant bookmark

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog

That one also calls to mind this great blog post about McPhee and Webster’s 2nd, which now sits on my desk:

jsomers.net

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 26/09/2026

yeah but we get Sábado Gigante so that’s something

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026

Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 25/09/2026

[makes a face like I just shotgunned a Keystone Ice] ah yes, a good vintage

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nice plane… FOR ME TO POOP ON

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oh my GOD I had not actually read this yet

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That was an X-Files episode!

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly wild story. As ever, the scandal isn’t so much that our leaders are for sale, but that they are so cheap! Not many parts of the state left where you can buy a house for less than the going rate for a US Senator.

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Doesn’t get much better as a short summary than ‘property developer Louis XIV’

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you have not lived until a guy in a posh accent weirdly aggressively threatens to strand you in iceland

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 23/09/2026

Is this a Pale Fire sort of debate, where the question is whether it’s Ishmael or Melville that’s autistic?

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 23/09/2026

Susan Collins, delivering on affordability

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23/09/2026

Concerning

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 21/09/2026

great news everyone, you don’t have to pay for Disney+ any more

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 20/09/2026

If you don’t like the edges, round pizza maximizes the bare crust to toppings ratio.

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28/ Astonishing post by Shengyu Liu, a Chinese Deepseek engineer: "In particular, I do not want Anthropic to control the world's most advanced artificial intelligence of AGI. To put it dramatically, I consider the stakes comparable to Hitler obtaining atomic-bomb technology before the Allies."

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

making this my new email autoreply

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 19/09/2026

Actually they’re doing that too

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 18/09/2026

the unit of hoobastank discourse is the stankonium

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 18/09/2026

Only 18 shopping days left to preorder Josie’s book!

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A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Keith Haring painted one of his most astounding and heartbreaking works in Stewart's honor, "Michael Stewart - USA For Africa" bsky.app/profile/work...

Keith Haring's Michael Stewart - USA For Africa

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...

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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 16/09/2026

coming out of retirement just to quit, I love it

Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 16/09/2026

We all have a lot to answer for